EcolocityDC

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Welcome to Ecolocity!

We're a Transition Towns group based in the Metro DC area that wishes to support all efforts to build sustainable communities, but has a special focus on food issues.  We also run D.C.'s local currency, the Potomac.


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Urgent action is required of all of us

Rapid changes are taking place. Whether or not we accept peak oil, global warming, and climate change, increasing gas and food prices are an undeniable reality. Economic decline, financial meltdown, and the housing crisis have come together in a perfect storm that challenges us to make better choices. Responses range from survivalist homesteaders, earthship bioneers, and ecovillages to Transition towns and eco-cities. Ecolocity welcomes all of these approaches and hopes to weave them into a vision for the DC Metro area.
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Emerging Leaders Summer Fellowship Program with Groundswell - Due April 1

The Emerging Leaders Summer Fellowship Program is a 12-week paid fellowship program for undergraduate and graduate students with an exceptional record of academic achievement, demonstrated leadership ability, and a commitment to social justice. The fellowship is open to students of color and first-generation students from all majors and areas of study. The timeline of the fellowship is mid-May through mid-August. There is some flexibility around start and end dates depending on the Fellow’s…

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Patricia Ceglia at Common Good City Farm

June 22, 2013 from 10:30am to 12:30pm
This workshop will teach practical skills for meeting our basic needs for survival – food, water, shelter and energy – locally.  By acquiring an indigenous understanding of our immediate environment, we can redesign our life-style to grow our own food organically, harvest rain water while recharging the water table, retrofit our houses for passive heating and cooling, and recycle wastes as fertilizer.  In so doing we reduce fossil fuel consumption, repair the health of all life forms, and…See More
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Sustainability Discussion Circle at Private home near Dupont Circle

June 3, 2013 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Help design a study and discussion  circle agenda around the new DC Sustainability Plan. On Monday, June 3, area residents will meet in a private home in the Dupont Circle neighborhood to take an overview look at the DC Sustainability Plan and develop a series of six or seven discussion circle sessions about its constituent topics.In February, the DC government released its Sustainability Plan. This framework document outlines the a) challenges, b) solutions, c) goals and d) targets that city…See More
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